A LECTURER who says his life was saved by police officers based just 200 yards from his home won a High Court battle to save his local police station yesterday.

Paul Kohler, 59, was brutally beaten by four men during a burglary in Wimbledon in August 2014 – the attack was only stopped when a police officer jumped on one of his assailants “just as he was about to bring a heavy wooden door down on [Mr Kohler’s] head.”

The plaintiff’s barrister David Wolfe QC said that “the only reason he survived the assault … is because the officers were able to get to his house so swiftly from Wimbledon police station,” just eight minutes after his daughter called the police.